Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-11
TRADE NOTES.

TRADE NOTES.
A. NJ. Byers x Co, of Pittsburg, coz
template the erection OF a steel-pipe mill.
The MonOngahela river miners are he
coming FESTIVE under their enforced idle
ness.
The Antrim Iron Company, at Nance
Iona, Mich, nave their second stack nearly
completed.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works AsSO-
citation has been organized by the III
plOyes, and 100 have joined it.
The Trcdegar Works, at Richmond, Va,
have for some time past been making horse
shoes from imported soft steel billets.
The C0play Iron Company COntemplates
| blowing out two OF its furnaces because of
the poor quality of anthracite coal furnished
it.
The coke producers say that they will
not cOunteuance : reduction in the price
of coke until they car ship what product
they sell.
The "Reminiscences Engineering Com
pany, with Il capital stock Of S5O, OhO, has
been organized at Jacksonville, Fla, to
build and sell machinery.
Iron Mountain ore is being used in small
quantities rs a fix for pudding furnaces at
Birmingham, Ala, local ores being insult
able for that purpose,
The Portland Rolling Mill Company, at
Portland, Me, are turning out a large
quantity of angle iron for the Berlin Iron
Bridge Company, at Belin, Conn.
Toledo ms one stove factory, aud the
newspapers are complaining that proper in
ducements were not offered to men who
wanted to establish another there.
The Cheraw Iron Works have been or
ganized at Cheraw, s. C., with H.. l..
Louchlin as President, and w. A. Hinshaw
Superintendent. Work on buildings will
be commenced at once.
The fremont Nail Company, of West
Wsreham, Mass, will soon the
manufacture of nails from Bessener iron.
They have W nail trains each Il capacity
OF 200 tons in 81 hours.
The Bridgeport Boiler Works, of Bridge
port, Conn, are about u ship one of Lowe
teed-water heaters and purifiers OF 500
horse power capacity to the Soldiers Home,
Le~ayenwOrth, Kansas.
The contract TO build the iron bridge
acrosf the Braces River, Tex has been
awarded to the King Iron Bridge and
Manufacturing Company, Of Cleveland, o.,
at ST. ,50O. 1t will be 500 feet long.
The Livcrmora Foundry and Machine
Company, Of Memphis, Tenn, have
recently embarked III the iron business,
having purchased ire iron and railway
supply depot at 226 Second street, in that
city. The foundry is full Of work.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, hes
about thirty four thousand men employed
ia the iron and steel mills and furnaces.
All the furnaces are lighted and are pro-
ducing three thousand tong of material per
day.
The iDcricGR MANUFACTURER has received
from lts EngliSh correspondent Cihlcgrlm
dated the lst inst, announcing that the
British Iron and Steel Institute h?s ac-
crpttl the American invitation to hold Its
September ,lSSs) meeting in Pittsburg.
The Vulcan Iron Works, of Chicago, H.,
have been awarded the contract, through
hleSsr4. Gro. ). Morrison aud f.. l.. Cart
llNAAt NliEllhNNAgs ~ 4NNN " thllt NblAlE's
tor all the machinery for operating q draw
bridge over the Willamette river, at Port
land, ore, for the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company.
The Morgan Williams Company, of Al
lance, O., have begun work on the two
overhead travelling cranes for the new u
shops ter the United States Navy at Wash
ingtOu. The magnitude OF these immense
cranes can hest BE- imagined when it is con
sider,d that IL will take from - to 20
freight ears to ship them.
Canister is the name given to a fine grit
which Ocrurs under certain coal beds 10
Yorkshire, Derby and South Wales, and
| the black canister from the neighhorhcOi
OF Sheffield is especially adapted Tor lining
cupOla furnaces, owing Ia its capacity 10
stand high temperature without shrinking,
IN consequence Of the large quantity OF
| silica il contains.
During the first ten months OF this year
the State of Illinois granted charters to 10
lrSs thar l3l East st. Louis companies
with an aggregate authorized stock oi
$l9l, OUu, 000. These companies Were or
canned tor manufacturing purposes, To-
/ lUL SttNlAlTlllp lAuSTs ~ bNlAlh AlhkNSt "
dig the precious metals, and, in fact TO do
almost everything requiring capital.
ID. W. C.. Carroll & Co. are building a
half dozen wrought iron bridges for the
| Central Ohio Division of the Baltimore aud
Ohio, with iron buildings, girdeTs, &c. a
number OF large iron buildings for the
Ashland Coal and Iron Company; eight
large steel boilers with all appliances for
the Sellers and Soldiers Home OF San
duskv, o two batteries of steam boilers
complete for the Youngstown, o., Coal and
/ Iron Works.
The Rogers Locomotive Works have
neatly completed 10 unusually large WOot-
ten passenger engines for the Union Pacific.
The cylinders are 22I26. and the drivers
"a inches in diameter. These engines are
intended for hauling the additional fast
passenger traius which are to be put on
over the steep grades OF the mountains be-
tween cheyenne and Ogden. These en-
| gines will burn the slack from the Union
Pacific coal mines.
Ga OctOb er -, at Hammond, the tis
Bessemer steel made in the State of In
diana was turned ont by the Est Chicago
Steel Works. The products OF these works
will he soft steel exclusively, to be used
for nails and in making other products re-
quiring steel of this character. The suc-
cesslul establishment of these works in
Indiana is another step toward n~atiOnaliz-
ing the Bessemer industry, There are now
eleven States in which this branch of the
Iron trade il conducted.
The Prsy iron works of Minneapolis has
passed into the hands Of Anderson. Doug
lass II Co. The owners propose to eStsb-
lish a company with stock TO the amount
Of $3.50, 900. They agree to contribute the
plant OF the Pray Company, buildings and
real estate, and accept for the plant $780,
600 worth of paid up stock. The remain